The National Portrait Gallery acquired a beguiling silhouette group portrait by Samuel Metford, an English artist who spent periods of his working life in America.
Rebecca Ray on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series, Jennifer Higgie on Alice Neel, Elspeth Pitt chats with Yvette Coppersmith, Vincent Fantauzzo on virtual sittings with Hugh Jackman and more.
Bradley Vincent considers Samuel Hodge’s use of the archive to create a queer vernacular of portraiture.
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.
Stephen Valambras Graham traverses the intriguing socio-political terrain behind two iconic First Nations portraits of the 1850s.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
Michael Desmond in conversation with University of Houston professor of philosophy Cynthia Freeland.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
Shipmates for years, James Cook and Joseph Banks each kept a journal but neither man shed light on their relationship.
